Happiness Quote by Michel de Montaigne

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.

— Michel de Montaigne

“No spirited mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength; it has impulses beyond its power of achievement.”

— Michel de Montaigne

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— Adam Savage

It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the…

— James Ellis

It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other…

— Epictetus

Speaking as a phenomenologist, it seems to me that a considerable portion of mind wandering actually is "mental avoidance behaviour", an attempt to cope…

— Thomas Metzinger

It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves out of…

— George Jean Nathan

You know, in the case of most of us, the mind is noisy, everlastingly chattering to itself, soliloquizing or chattering about something, or trying…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

How could a person possibly become what he is not thinking? Nor is any thought, when persistently entertained, too small to have its effect.…

— Spencer W. Kimball

The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety…

— David Hume

It's the nature of the mind to drift away. The mind is like the Pacific Ocean, it waves. And mindfulness has been shown to…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

“The ultimate experience of being mindful occurs when we forget about everything, even the mindful self and doing. In that mode we are full…

— Sang H. Kim